how to find serial no on hp-ux?

[Rajesh Karelia]

Hi,

Is there any command in HP-UX which gives the serial number of the machine?

This is reqd since we have messed up with a few machines.

Thanks
Rajesh

[Ludovic Derlyn]

hi,

the more sure is :

echo "sel path system\ninfolog\nexit"|cstm|grep "System Serial Number"


Becauseif you have restored a server by ignite on an other server , serial number is
not the good

Regards

L-DERLYN

[freddy_21]

cstm
seldev 1
info
infolog

or you can check from physical server.

[twang]

if ignite-ux installed, change dir to /opt/ignite/bin and exec print_manifest
# print_manifest |more


System Information
..
..
...
Serial number: 39--------


you will find serial number from the output

[Hemmetter]

Hi Rajesh

on HP-UX 11.23:
# machinfo | grep "machine serial number"

on HP-UX 11/11i:
echo "selclass qualifier system;info;wait;il" | cstm | grep "System Serial Number"



rgds
HGH

[Enrico P.]

Hi,
you can try with the command:

getconf MACHINE_SERIAL


Enrico

[doug hosking]

One more way, if you want to do it from C:

#include

main()
{
char buf[81];
if (confstr(_CS_MACHINE_SERIAL, buf, sizeof(buf)) <= 0) {
printf("UNKNOWN\n");
exit(1);
}
printf("%s\n", buf);
exit(0);
}

Some of the older machines do not support this, but all the newer ones I have tried do.

[Torsten.]

Hi Rajesh,

some older models are not aware of the SN.
Newer models should responde to the given commands. What server models you have?

[Bill Hassell]

The majority of HP 9000 computers do not have the serial number stored electronically. Only the more recent machines such as the rp series and earlier models like N and L class have this number. Note that you must have the online diagnostics installed to run the cstm command. Otherwise, someone will have to read the number from the label on the computer.